A neighbour's lad had been messing about with Control Panel on Win 2K, and had managed to change his password and then forgot it! He never knew the Administrator password as the box came pre-loaded so he was knackered really.
I tried a Linux Boot Disk that I had downloaded a while back. WOW
this thing was scary! It booted the box up, had a rummage about in the system, had a rummage about in the registry, listed the Users, and then asked which passwords you want to change. Simple as that! You don't need to know the original passwords, and you don't have to log on, so you certainly don't have to be an administrator! It works on NT3.51, NT4, Win2K. Not sure about XP tho...
It came in very handy this evening, but in the wrong hands this thing could be really dodgy.
Anybody want a copy, just PM me!
Windy